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General Fandom

What's your One True Show and Why?: sgamadison (LJ) - "So what I want to know from you is what is/was/always will be your favorite fandom? Your One True Fandom? It doesn't have to be SGA. I want to know what is *your* love and why? Why that show, those characters? What made you create icons, and write fanfic, and make playlists and fan vids? What made you tune in every week, make up stories about it as soon as the episode ended, get together with your friends and squeal over it the next day?"

topic: fandom

At The Movies, The Women Are Gone: Linda Holmes (blog) - "I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see a movie in the theater and see a current movie about a woman — any story about any woman that isn't a documentary or a cartoon — you can't. You cannot. There are not any. You cannot take yourself to one, take your friend to one, take your daughter to one.
There are not any."

topic: film, topic: feminism, character: female

noncon, dubcon, and fannish standards: thingswithwings (DW) - "I sometimes read fanfiction in the genre "noncon." I also sometimes read fanfiction in the genre "dubcon." Lately I've been getting increasingly frustrated about the way fic writers in my fandoms will label things "dubcon" even when they're noncon, ie, involve nonconsensual sex. "

topic: warnings, topic: fanfic, topic: consent, warning:rape/non-con

Today's FFA Thread: klb (DW) - "Today there was a thread about podfic at FFA. I've been wanting to weigh in on a couple of things, but I feel like it would be disingenuous to do so in the thread, because that would be implying that I'm a regular FFA anon, and I'm not. So for those like me, who want to weigh in but not anon and not in that space, I'm creating this space."

topic: podfic, topic: fandom

A Users' Guide to AO3 Tagging: SailorPtah (AO3) - "On the AO3, you're allowed to tag your works in any way you want.
But if what you want is the tags that are most standard, most searchable, and/or most wrangler-friendly, here's a short guide on how to do it."

topic: tagging, topic: fanfic

Episode 258: Superman during The PurgeMatthew Wrather - Overthinking It Podcast: (blog) - "Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather discuss fictional dystopian surveillance states, recourse to works of fiction in political discourse, PRISM, and The Purge."

topic:dystopias

more useless navelgazing writing meta: vouksen (tumblr) - "or; a tour of voksen’s stylistic sausage factory"

topic: writing

On writing porn.: agentotter (tumblr) - "I don’t think I’ve ever really sat down and thought about how I write smut. I just kinda… pin down a visual and then try to translate that visual into words. The more ah… effective the visual, the easier it usually is to write (yoga pants, anyone?). So, there you go I guess"

topic: writing, topic: sex

Possible overreaction…..I get angry sometimes.: pilgrimkitty (tumblr) - "Okay, so first of all I want to say that no matter how horrible rape is, it’s still a valid kink.That out of the way, I’m going to move to discussing the different versions of the omegaverse."

trope: omega, trope: au

Stories Outside History Daniel Abraham - Nerds of a Feather: (blog) - "I live in the early twenty-first century. I have no direct experience of Weimar Germany. Or 1800s England. Or Napoleon's final prison on Elba. Or – more to the point – of Bag End, Winterfell, or Barsoom. Whenever I read a story, I am evoking places, people, actions, and states of mind that are outside my immediate experience. But some stories lay claim to a special status. To one degree or another, they claim to be real. That can range from "Based on a True Story" claims like the Amityville Horror books to any piece of fiction that takes a setting in the present or historical past."

topic: writing, topic: worldbuilding

Where Anita Sarkeesian goes, sexism follows—even to E3 Aja Romano - The Daily Dot: (blog) - "But while most geeks are reacting to classic Nintendo games revamped for Wii U and Sony's unveiling of its $399 Playstation 4, others, including Anita Sarkeesian, are facing down that other familiar thread of gamer culture: the exclusion of women and hostility towards those who try to talk about misogyny in gaming."

topic: gaming, topic: misogyny

California Court Finally Decides It’s OK For Prisoners To Read Werewolf Erotica Rebecca Pahle - The Mary Sue: (blog) - "Congrats to the California legal system on opting against censorship, though I have to judge them a little for not offering a definitive opinion on whether human-werewolf sex counts as bestiality. "

genre: paranormal romance

Reconciliation: A Response To Theodore Beale Foz Meadows: (blog) - "Recently, I blogged about sexism in the SFWA Bulletin. I wrote that piece as a self-declared comic rant, the tone inspired by anger at men who ultimately meant well, however offensive and outdated their efforts at showing it. I received a lot of support for having done so; but of course, there was a flipside. My anger, said some, was unseemly and unprofessional. My arguments were poorly reasoned. I was preaching to the choir. I was the gendered pejorative of choice. But the thing is, I can shrug that off. "

topic: SFWA, topic: racism

Untitled: brownbetty (DW) - "A while ago, Dear Author posted Why I Now Hate Erotic Romance, a long letter from someone in the industry discussing what she finds most frustrating about the genre. Her objections to it are about the morality of it, and it's a fairly complex argument, which I do not completely follow"

topic: original fic, topic: romance, topic: sexuality

How Much Sex is Too Much Sex in your SFF?: kate elliott(LJ) - "Many of you read the Extras chapter for COLD FIRE, which was not in the book because it is not written from Cat’s first person point of view but rather Andevai’s third person point of view. Some wished the chapter had been included in the book; some were happy that it was available but not in the book; some did not read it at all because they do not like to read the explicit sexytimes."

topic: original fic, topic: sexuality

Uses Of Description In Fanriction: chordatesrock (DW) - "Description is often looked down on by members of fandom on the grounds that “we already know Harry Potter has green eyes; we don’t need you to tell us again.” To some extent, this is a good point. However, there are various uses for description in fanfiction. The important thing is that the description should do something more than just upping the wordcount."

topic: writing, topic: fanfiction

Blind vs Masked: sasha_feather (DW) - "I first started using "Masked" instead of "Blind" when I worked on a scientific study where some blind people were participants. Blind is both a medical term and an identity category, and therefore it means a lot of things already; "masked" is more respectful and we used it in place of "double blind study" for example."

topic: language, topic: health, topic: disability

Specific Fandoms

Angel

Here are some Angel things about Angel!: pocochina (LJ) - "Or, more accurately, some Wesley things about Angel. My brainpower is very list-oriented this week, lol. So after the BtVS list yesterday this feels natural!"

fandom: Angel

ASOIAF

"Winter is coming" Veselin Kostov, Daniel Allan, Nikolaus Hartman, Scott Guzewich, Justin Rogers: (blog) - "For the rest of the good folks of Westeros, however, a decent grasp of the long-term weather forecast is a necessity. Many a maester have tried to play the Game of Weather Patterns and foretell when to plant those last turnip seeds, hoping for a few more years of balmy respite. Tried and failed. For other than the somewhat vague (if not outright meaningless) omens of "Winter is Coming", their meteorological efforts have been worse than useless. To right that appalling wrong, here we attempt to explain the apparently erratic seasonal changes in the world of G.R.R.M. "

fandom: ASOIAF, topic: worldbuilding

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

oh dear... again: slaymesoftlyLJ) - "In keeping with my insistence of being a flaming hypocrite on a regular a basis, I feel I have to admit that I really dislike the common fanfic trope that says instant hot sex = instant change in relationship/love/whatever."

fandom: btvs, topic: sexuality, topic: fanfic

Captain America, Inglorious Basterds
By the Victors: Meta-Propaganda in Captain America and Inglourious Basterds Richard Rosenbaum: Overthinking It (blog) - "Into this scenario emerged two major Hollywood blockbusters set against the backdrop of World War II, not only America’s last most consummate victory, but also its most convincingly moral military engagement. Captain America: The First Avenger and Inglourious Basterds both pit American superheroes (or antiheroes) against the closest thing the real world has ever had to actual supervillains: the Nazis. Of course there have been more movies made about World War II than probably about any other subject, except maybe Dracula, and if there hasn’t ever been a movie that included both Dracula and World War II, then I am officially calling dibs."

fandom: captain america, fandom: inglorious basterds, topic: media, topic: military

Cult

CW’s Cult and how its pathologisation of fans can’t have won them favours in fandom Bertha Chin - On/Off Screen(blog) - "I followed the development of Cult ever since it was announced, somewhat mortified but curious by the show’s description and the way that the CW network, home to other popular shows such as Arrow, Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries, chose to promote it. I find it hard to reconcile the idea that a show which boasts lead casts from cult-favourite shows such as The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural would alienate the very demographics that they are presumably trying to court."

fandom: cult, topic: fandom

Game of Thrones

The Silencing of Catelyn Stark: Rhiannon (blog) - "Catelyn Stark is one of the major point of view characters in A Song of Ice and Fire. [...] And she certainly has more focus than Robb Stark, who never has a POV chapter — we see his story entirely through Catelyn’s eyes. Not that you’d know that from watching the show."

fandom: asoiaf, fandom: game of thrones, character: female

Hannibal

Various Musings on Murder Family: atreeisatree (DW) - "I want to talk about murder family as something that Hannibal is deliberately constructing/manipulating into existence, because I love this idea."

fandom: hannibal

The Attraction of Opposites: hannibalblog (tumblr) - "With the news this week that “Hannibal” has been renewed by NBC and that Season 2 will get deeper into the madness between Lecter and Will Graham, I thought this might be a good moment to describe how we developed the look of the series and the stylistic differences between its two main characters."

fandom: hannibal

The Hunger Games

So that was The Hunger Games.: sailorptah (DW) - "Just finished Mockingjay. That was...unexpected. And this turned into a lengthy reflection on the whole Hunger Games series, and in particular about Katniss' characterization and arc. (Books only; I still haven't seen the movie.) It all started off strong! Then...things happened. That's the short version. Here's the long version."

fandom: the hunger games

Mad Men, Game of Thrones

Lost Girls: ‘Mad Men’s Sally Draper, ‘Game of Thrones’ Arya Stark, And What It Means To Lose A Father Alyssa Rosenberg - ThinkProgress: (blog) - "Where Arya’s relationship to her father and her father figures is repeatedly based on her ability to fit into the world of men, whether she’s nailing a bullseye, absorbing Syrio’s lessons, proving she’s tough enough to be part of Yoren’s caravan North, or impressing the Hound, Sally’s attempts to woo her father are more feminine. She fixes Don drinks. She makes him waffles and tops them with rum, innocently thinking it’s maple syrup. "

fandom: game of thrones, fandom: mad men

Man of Steel

Man-Child of Steel: hellotailor (blog) - "As an origin story, Man of Steel is total garbage because there is just no character development at all".

fandom: comics, fandom: superman

Star Trek

TOS 1.6 “The Naked Time”: Trekkie Feminist (tumblr) - "You could say it’s not significant because he’s basically drunk, but the episode would be pointless if we aren’t meant to understand the intoxication as helping to express something buried deep within each of the characters. It doesn’t create something totally new but enhances something that’s already there. So it was an interesting choice for Riley’s drunkenness to lead him to express insecurity about women serving as his equals."

fandom: star trek tos, topic: feminism

today i shall behave as if this is the day i will be remembered: sigridhr (LJ) - "I realize I'm totally late to the party on this one, but I've wanted to talk about Star Trek: Into Darkness for a while now, and haven't really been able to articulate why the movie fell so flat for me. I thought I'd just throw this out there and invite commentary, if anyone's interested. I won't touch on a lot of the stuff I've seen covered in people's meta and reviews of the film so far, since I think a lot of really intelligent things have been said (particularly regarding the treatment of women in the film, the recycling of scenes from The Wrath of Khan, and the whitewashing of Khan), but I wanted to talk about why thematically the film didn't work for me (and the few ways in which it did), and I haven't seen that done yet. Though, very likely, it has been done somewhere, and much better than I'm about to. Some spoilers for TOS, particularly The Wrath of Khan. "

fandom: star trek

Star Wars

Responding to the Hysteria Surrounding Episode VII : Benjamin (blog) - "Disney Buys Lucasfilm For 4.5 Billion Dollars..... Star Wars Episode VII Coming In 2015!" Almost every Star Wars fan can remember where they were when they heard this news. And as always, every fan made their opinion know loud & clear. Reactions to this bombshell was all over the board, from joyous excitement, to confusion, to extreme negativity. Still, months later, anxieties run high as we await the next chapter in the Star Wars Saga. In this article, I will respond to some logical, and some not so logical comments about Episode VII that I've seen floating around the Interwebs"

fandom: star wars

Teen Wolf

Kate Argent: My two Cents: lierdumoa (tumblr) - "I keep seeing posts where people say, “But Kate Argent honestly believed she was acting for the greater good!” Or “Kate just had really strong convictions, and even though they were misguided, the fact that she had convictions is admirable!” JUSTIFICATIONS ARE NOT BELIEFS. PREJUDICES ARE NOT ADMIRABLE."

character: villain, fandom: teen wolf

ON “QUEER BAITING” AND STEREK
: mylittlewerewolf (tumblr) - "Queer baiting is a term with an actual meaning, referring to when a show introduces a character whose canon sexuality is left up in the air or hinted at being something other than straight so that they can attract a queer audience while not alienating other viewers, or when their are hints of a romantic relationship or potential for one between two same-sex characters only for it to then be shut down spectacularly. It’s having a character or characters behave as if they are queer only to reaffirm their heterosexuality as loudly as possible afterwards. It is a bait and switch, it’s an “oh look this character might be queer—oh whoops totally not, nevermind”. What queer baiting is NOT is the cast or writers acknowledging a popular ship in the fanbase or joking with the fans about that ship."

fandom: teen wolf, topic: queer

Teen Wolf: On Stiles and his single bed.: daniellabellafonte (tumblr) - "Today, I had the worst thought regarding Stiles and all the Mama Stilinski feels. Have you noticed that everyone apart from Stiles has a double bed? His room is big enough for one, so why doesn’t he have one? Every teenager I know who has a room big enough for a double bed has a double bed."

topic: death, topic: grief

fandom: teen wolf, warning: spoilers

(Spoilers for recent Season 3 episodes below)

Episode 32 — Shirtlessness in Contemporary Television: Teen Wolf Fandomspotting: (podcast)

fandom: teen wolf

Untitled: qhuinn (tumblr) - "So I haven’t seen anyone on my dash talking about this yet, but I was rewatching “Chaos Rising” last night, and I was struck by Isaac during the ice-bath scene saying, “They’re here, they’re here!”"

Teen Wolf: Chaos Rising.: hellotailor (blog) - "On the bright side, this episode showed us that most of Teen Wolf's main characters are learning from past mistakes. I say "bright side" because as always, everything in Beacon Hills is terrible."

Ancient Werewolves: Skin-Changers, Rowdy Boys and Baby Eaters: keriarentikai (tumblr) - "While werewolves are all over the place in fiction today, they actually do have a mythological origin - werewolves were an ancient Greek thing. Even the word lycanthropy is Greek in origin, from the words meaning wolf (lykos) and person (anthropos)"

topic: myths

let’s talk about magic!stiles: mariuswakeup (tumblr) - "I’ve been thinking lately about the magic!Stiles trope. If you don’t know, magic!Stiles is a common fanfiction trope wherein, obviously, Stiles either gains magical abilities of some sort, or has had them to begin with. It’s a very popular trope within the Teen Wolf fandom, as well as one that many fans would likely want to see in the show. It is also one that could very plausibly happen in the show at some point, and I wanted to talk about my feelings on the subject of Stiles gaining magical abilities."

On Morell Being a [spoiler]: uswe (tumblr) - "I’ve seen a number of posts about Morell being a [spoiler] [...] and have a number of reasons why I think that isn’t true."

This Is Only Just A Dream… Who is the Dreamer?: sublimeglass (tumblr) - "Who Is The Dreamer? I don’t actually believe most of these theories, they’re just an interesting way to fit the supernatural actions into the real world. The actual theory I have is just as far-fetched — it has to do with some kind of a group dream or reality altering. Warning: I’m about to go into ridiculous territory."

Untitled: ladywinter (tumblr) - "Basically: werewolves probably have a ‘ground state’ that they return to when damaged, hence moles/freckles. It sometimes has to be ‘kick-started’ because it can’t tell when something is far enough from ‘ground’. "

fandom: teen wolf

theory about lydia: radruby (tumblr) - "going off of this post by allteenwolf. (which i loved and was thrilled to see someone else had this thought as well!) so i have actually been playing around with this theory myself for a bit and love it because... [spoiler/speculation]"

SCOTT’S EYES: gsw11 (tumblr) - "It is my opinion that Deucalion has already [spoiler]. I"


Teen Wolf/General

Comment Meta: zvi (DW) - "I posted two things there that I wanted to pull into my journal, which are not really about femslash or the topics above. Point 1, about my favorite narrative OF ALL TIME"

fandom: Teen Wolf, fandom: general, topic: narrative, character: female

Thor

The Art of Mishap: An Examination of Tasertricks Fanfiction and Loki’s Psyche: amidtheflowers (AO3) - "So this is me basically trying my hand at putting my own thoughts and analysis of the tasertricks fanfiction, which starts with a lot of hooplah on Loki’s characterization. As you all know, I am a huge shipper of the Loki and Darcy pairing, but the fanfics that have been littering the archives make me quite apprehensive, of late. You’ll see why."

fandom: thor, topic: shipping, topic: fanfic

Loki's parentage issues and fantastic racism: nemonclature (DW) - "My main issue with the way canon and for the most part, fanon deals with Loki's parentage is the same issue I have with Once Upon a Time and Henry's parentage, only in reverse."

fandom: thor, topic: parenting, topic: adoption, topic: race